Boot block



Nov. 15, 1927. 1,649,783

P. HAMMES BOOT BLOCK Filed Sept. 29, 1926 f KM.

the upper end'of said lever, a nut rotatahly slots in the rear end of the upper part of the front block and co-operating with said:

lower. end, said projectingmembersenga e ing in slots in the rear end of the lower part of the front block, alug forwardly projecting frointhe upper end of said bar a veritie calspindle threadedin said lug, a removable forloshaped ineinberarrangeid in slots in the rear end of the upper part ofthe front block andco'operating with said spindle for the purpose of enabling the upper part of the front block to be l'illSGCl or lowered, a rearwardly projecting cliponsaid bar; a doublearined lever pivot-ally mounted in said clip, the lower end of saidlever forming the heel block, a fork-shaped member arranged 'at mounted in said fork-shaped member, and a horizontal spindlehingedly and rotatably, attached at its front end to the upper part of: said bar and screwed through said nut, the frontblock being easily detachable from all the other parts substantially as; described. j a r 3. In boot stretching andwidening blocks of thetype in which thefrontblock is composed of two parts hingedto one another at the front end, the combination of: a vertical bar, a forwardly extending tongue on said bar enga ing in w vertical groove in the rear end of the lower part of the front block, lateral projections on said tongue engaging in slots intherrear end of the lower part of the front block, an easily detachable sorew ,ineinber, passing through the bottom of the lower part of the front block. and holding,

said tongue in. position, aliw forwardly, pros of said bar, a

jecting from the upper on vertical spindle threaded in said lug, a fork arranged in. slots in therear end ofthe upa per part of the front block. amliemoperat ng with said spindle for-the purposeofienabling the upper part of the frontblook tobe raised or lowered by therotation of said spindle,

a nut threaded on the lower end of said spindleand holding said fork in position on Said spindle, a rearwardly projecting clip on said. bar, a ClOllblBzfllLIl'lGCl lever nvotally, IllOlIlltQdi in said clip,tl1e lower endof saidlever forming the heel block, a forleshapedmember arranged at the upper end of lever, a nut rotatably mounted in said'fork-shapedincur her, and. a horizontal spindle hingedly and rotatably attached at its front end to the upper part of said bar andscrewed through said nut, the front lilockheing easily detaohable from all the other parts, substantially as described. a j i In testimony whereof I have heremito see my hand. t

PAUL HAMMES. 

